Baneful Blade (T2 Life PA Enchant) tests

Thought I'd leave this here for anybody who might be thinking of dropping PAs into this talent.

Baneful Blade can be applied to both equipped 1-handed weapons at the cost of 1 planar charge each. It cannot be used on the ranged weapon slot. There is no noticeable difference between applying it to one or both weapons.

Baneful Blade does not proc on any ranged weapon attacks. This includes both marksman and ranger abilities. I find this especially odd, as it is the life PA enchant--the tree that focuses entirely on bow and gun specialization.

To be sure I wasn't just not seeing it proc, I ran this sample MM parse with Baneful on both weapons:

The enchant does proc on melee ability attacks, but very infrequently. I do not run melee builds for HK at the moment, so I tested the enchant on one of my melee PvP builds (38 NB / 28 RS). It results in 20-25 DPS over 5 minutes, as seen here:

Baneful Blade does not proc on any ranged weapon attacks. This includes both marksman and ranger abilities. I find this especially odd, as it is the life PA enchant--the tree that focuses entirely on bow and gun specialization.

I'd really like to re-roll my planar attunement points. I skipped around like an idiot and put points into fire and death, so it's taking me forever to get to tier 2.

Saw some dude in wf w\ " Lightning Glyph " on each weapon for +30 dex per dagger.

Why not use fine whetstones instead for a 4DPS increase, they are super cheap. You'd need 40 attack power to be the same thing, which is 80 dexterity. Of course, they aren't free... but it's not like money should be an issue for anyone these days.

Why not use fine whetstones instead for a 4DPS increase, they are super cheap. You'd need 40 attack power to be the same thing, which is 80 dexterity. Of course, they aren't free... but it's not like money should be an issue for anyone these days.

I take it you can't use the glyph and whetstones?

Its more than 40AP, it applies directly to the weapon's damage calculation.